Anne McElvoy
Anne McElvoy | |
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![]() McElvoy at the Horasis Global Meeting in 2019 | |
Born | County Durham, England[1] | 25 June 1965
Nationality | British |
Education | St Bede's Catholic School, Lanchester |
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Spouse | |
Children | Benjamin Ivens, Gabriel Ivens and Isolde Ivens |
Parent(s) | Alexander McElvoy Mary Margaret Bartley/McElvoy |
Anne McElvoy (born 25 June 1965) is a British journalist, contributing to The Economist, London Evening Standard, and the BBC.[2]
Early life
McElvoy attended St Bede's RC Comprehensive School in Lanchester, County Durham,[3] and read German and Philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford.[4] While at Oxford University, she edited Cherwell, the student newspaper.[5] She spent a year at the Humboldt University of Berlin, then in East Berlin, studying East German literature and censorship.[6]
Career
Newspapers
She joined The Times in 1988 as a graduate trainee, writing frequently about the dissolution of eastern Europe, and later reporting from Moscow. In 1995, she became deputy editor of The Spectator,[7] as well as being a columnist on its sister publication, The Daily Telegraph.[2]
In 1997, McElvoy became associate editor of The Independent. In 2002 she moved to the Evening Standard as executive editor remaining until 2009, though she still contributes a weekly political column. In 2009 she joined The Economist. She wrote The Saddled Cow: East Germany's Life And Legacy, and is the co-author of Markus Wolf's best-selling memoir Man Without A Face: The Autobiography Of Communism's Greatest Spymaster.
Broadcasting
She has been a regular presenter of the BBC Radio 3 late-night discussion programme since 2009, initially on Night Waves, and then its successor programme, Free Thinking. She has also appeared on BBC2's Newsnight Review, contributes to BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze as well as presenting Across the Red Line, bringing two figures on opposing sides of a debate together with conflict resolution experts to listen to each other.[8][9] She is the head of Economist Radio.[2]
Publications
- McElvoy, Anne (1992). The Saddled Cow: East Germany's Life And Legacy. Faber and Faber (ISBN 978-0571165919)
- Wolf, Markus and McElvoy, Anne (1997). Man Without A Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster. Jonathan Cape Ltd. (ISBN 978-0224044981)
References
- ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ a b c "Anne McElvoy - Economist". www.mediadirectory.economist.com. Archived from the original on 8 December 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
- ^ McElvoy, Anne. "Grange Hill grows up". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ^ "Wadham alumni". www.wadham.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2 June 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ^ "Britain just got Weller: meet the Jam Generation". www.spectator.co.uk. Archived from the original on 29 January 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ^ "Reinventing Higher Education 2019".
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "EdTech Europe 2014". events.bizzabo.com. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
- ^ "Anne McElvoy".
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Across the Red Line". BBC. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
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- Living people
- Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford
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